Colour Photo's of the Battlefields of the Vosges nowadays.

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No Germans or bunkers this time in this announcement of a new Vosges episode of Pierre’s, but I do still hope that my illustrated frames about the American Ambulance Driver, Richard Neville Hall, will be appreciated here, especially by the American forum users here. I hope that you will accept this exceptional message about a French cemetery.

From the Hirzstein we cross the frontline to the west. Via the Col du Silberloch we follow the “Willer-road”, the route of the (American) ambulance cars to Bitschwiller and we continue to the next village of Moosch. At the outskirts of Moosch we visit the interesting French National Military Cemetery of Moosch, which contains the graves of mostly Chasseurs and some Infantrists. Some graves have an interesting background, like the graves of General Serret, his nurse, Soeur Ignace, and the American ambulance driver, Richard Hall. These graves offered me another opportunity to write some illustrated, background information frames about some of these persons, buried in this cemetery.

In a peculiar frame we will visit the Site of the Injury of Gen. Serret at a slope the Hartmannswillerkopf. To explain you more about this site, where General Serret was wounded, I asked for the assistance of my fellow front explorer and Dutch friend, René Kappert, who already helped me out before with some locations in the Vosges. In 2009 René Kappert visited the site at a southern slope of the Hartmannswillerkopf and René made the photo's of this spot. Almost unnecessary to write here that I am of course very grateful for René’s fine addition to this photo impression!

This Photo Impression contains 80 images. So again, no Germans or bunkers this time in this episode of Pierre’s, but I do still hope that my illustrated frames will make a virtual visit to this cemetery worthwhile and interesting enough.

Click on Moosch – Cimétière Nationale .

Thanks in advance for visiting my website again!

Pierre
 
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Three new photo impressions about the Northern Vosges.

The last months I updated and extended an existing photo page about the Donon front area in the Northern Vosges and I added two completely new photo impressions; one about the Franco German war cemetery at Bertrimoutiers, and another one about the German bunkers at the foot of the Donon.

The link to the interesting Bertrimoutiers Franco-German War Cemetery: http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/?id=556180&r=1&tbl_archief=&" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .

I extended and I completely re-edited the already existing photo impression about the Northern Vosges, “Col de la Chipotte - Col de la Chapelotte - Col du Donon” with some period photos and some more details of German period maps of this sector. And, more important perhaps, at the end of this page I added more 2011 photos of the Donon and a series of my own photos of the remarkable and rather exceptional Nécropole Nationale de Wisches. This impression had been linked on Wikipedia twice!
The link to this photo page: http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/?id=442668&r=1&tbl_archief=&" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .

The new photo page about the Donon bunkers is in fact also a double photo impression. This photo impression will take you to the foot of the Donon mountain in the Northern Vosges.

In June 2011 we spent two warm days walking two routes at the foot of the Donon mountain to explore the former German defensive lines along the 1871-1918 Franco-German border.
This photo impression will show you many traces of German trenches and bunkers hidden in the beautiful woods at the foot of the Donon.

In three frames you will find some background information about the strategic importance of these lines, about the “inhabitants” of these dug-outs, and a concise “Bunkerology”-chapter, an introduction to the evolution of German concrete shelter bunkers.

Both Donon walks, Route “A” and Route “B”, will be introduced separately in this same photo impression.
Click on: http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/?id=561883&r=1&tbl_archief=&" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; .

Enjoy your visit. Thank you in advance for visiting my website!

Pierre
 
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